The Adaptive Organization, Five Years On: It's Still All About the Mindset

Please join us for our research webinar covering the findings from The Adaptive Organization 2024: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management. It's free, online, and PMPs earn 1 PDU for attending. A recorded version will be available later, but the live event, including Q&A will be Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 11 am ET. Here's the signup link:

https://pmsolutions-webinars.rallypointwebinars.com/register/4399?source=blog

You might recognize this research title from previous reports, webinar, and a couple of PMI presentations. We originally developed this study in 2018 to explore the adoption of agile, adaptive and hybrid strategies after these were added to the PMBOK®, Sixth Edition. With all the changes, disruptions, and growth in project management these past five years, we thought it was time to revisit those statistics--and add a couple of additional "changing approaches" -- AI and PMaaS.

Here's something that has not changed, though: in 2018 we were rather surprised to find that no particular adaptive method (i.e. Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, etc.) was correlated with organizational high performance in adaptive approaches. Instead, what drove high performance was having employees who adopted an "agile mindset," the willingness to try new ways and work together collaboratively. That is still the top scoring strategy for organizations in 2024.

So, once again ... it's all about people. Join us on Nov. 19 to learn more ways in which these new approaches to PM support the concept that training and humanely managing people is your winningest strategy in uncertain times.